EURECA’s HALO

As part of the EURECA field campaign, the German research aircraft HALO, configured as a cloud observatory, conducted 15 research flights in the trade wind region east of Barbados in January and February 2020. Narrative text, aircraft state data, and meta data describing HALO’s operation during the campaign are provided. Each HALO research flight is segmented by time-stamp intervals into standard elements to aid the consistent analysis of the flight data. Photographs from HALO’s cabin and animated satellite images synchronized with flight tracks are provided to visually document flight condi5 tions. As a comprehensive product from the remote sensing observations, a multi-sensor cloud mask product is derived and quantifies the incidence of clouds observed during the flights. In addition, to lower the threshold for new users of HALO’s data, a collection of use cases is compiled into an online book “How to EURECA”, included as an asset with this paper. This online book provides easy access to most of EURECA’s HALO data through an intake catalogue. 1 10 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-193 O pe n A cc es s Earth System Science Data D icu ssio n s Preprint. Discussion started: 15 June 2021 c © Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License.